| B: | is the second letter of the English alphabet See Guide to Pronunciation p v f w and m letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound as in Eng bursar and purser Eng bear and Lat ferre Eng silver and Ger silber Lat cubitum and It gomito Eng seven AngloSaxon seofon Ger sieben Lat septem Grepta Sanskrit saptan The form of letter B is Roman from the Greek B Beta of Semitic origin The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B |
| B: | A large longrange bomber airplane of the U S military aircraft fleet B stands for bomber It has the capability of delivering nuclear weapons |
| Ba: | To kiss |
| Baa: | To cry baa or bleat as a sheep |
| Baa: | The cry or bleating of a sheep a bleat |
| Baaing: | The bleating of a sheep |
| Baal: | The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations |
| Baalism: | Worship of Baal idolatry |
| Baalist: | A worshiper of Baal a devotee of any false religion an idolater |
| Bab: | Lit gate a title given to the founder of Babism and taken from that of BabudDin assumed by him |
| Baba: | A kind of plum cake |
| babassu: | a tall feather palm of northern Brazil Orbignya barbosiana with hardshelled nuts yielding a valuable oil babassu oil and a kind of vegetable ivory |
| babbiting: | lining a surface or bearing with babbitt metal |
| Babbitt: | To line with Babbitt metal |
| Babbittmetal: | A soft white alloy of variable composition as a nine parts of tin to one of copper or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper used in bearings to diminish friction |
| Babble: | To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly to utter inarticulate sounds as a child babbles |
| Babble: | To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way to repeat as words in a childish way without understanding |
| Babble: | Idle talk senseless prattle gabble twaddle |
| Babblement: | Babble |
| Babbler: | An idle talker an irrational prater a teller of secrets |
| Babblery: | Babble |
| Babehood: | Babyhood |
| Babel: | The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place |
| Babery: | Finery of a kind to please a child |
| Babian: | A baboon |
| Babillard: | The lesser whitethroat of Europe called also babbling warbler |
| Babingtonite: | A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle and of a greenish black color It is a silicate of iron manganese and lime |
| Babiroussa: | A large hoglike quadruped Sus babirussa syn Porcus babirussa of the East Indies sometimes domesticated the Indian hog Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved |
| Babish: | Like a babe a childish babyish |
| Babism: | The doctrine of a modern religious pantheistical sect in Persia which was founded about 1844 by Mirza Ali Mohammed ibn Rabhik 1820 1850 who assumed the title of BabedDin Per Gate of the Faith Babism is a mixture of Mohammedan Christian Jewish and Parsi elements This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy and frees women from many of the degradations imposed upon them among the orthodox Mohammedans Mendicancy the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs and slave dealing are forbidden asceticism is discountenanced |
| Babist: | A believer in Babism |
| Bablah: | The rind of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia nebneb It contains gallic acid and tannin and is used for dyeing drab |
| Baboo: | A Hindu gentleman a native clerk who writes English also a Hindu title equivalent to the English Mr or Esquire |
| Baboon: | One of the Old World Quadrumana of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio the dogfaced ape Baboons have doglike muzzles and large canine teeth cheek pouches a short tail and naked callosities on the buttocks They are mostly African See Mandrill and Chacma and Drill an ape |
| Baboonery: | Baboonish behavior |
| Baboonish: | Like a baboon |
| Babul: | Any one of several species of Acacia esp Acacia Arabica which yelds a gum used as a substitute for true gum arabic |
| Baby: | An infant or young child of either sex a babe |
| Baby: | Pertaining to or resembling an infant young or little as baby swans |
| Baby: | To treat like a young child to keep dependent to humor to fondle |
| babyblueeyes: | delicate California annual having blue flowers marked with dark spots |
| babyfaced: | having a face resembling that of a baby |
| Babyfarm: | A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire |
| Babyfarmer: | One who keeps a baby farm |
| Babyfarming: | The business of keeping a baby farm |
| Babyhood: | The state or period of infancy |
| Babyhouse: | A place for childrens dolls and dolls furniture |
| Babyish: | Like a baby childish puerile simple |
| Babyism: | The state of being a baby |
| Babyjumper: | A hoop suspended by an elastic strap in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor |
| Babylonian: | Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia Chaldean |
| Babylonian: | An inhabitant of Babylonia which included Chaldea a Chaldean |
| Babylonic: | Pertaining to Babylon or made there as Babylonic garments carpets or hangings |
| Babylonish: | Of or pertaining to or made in Babylon or Babylonia |
| Babyroussa: | See Babiroussa |
| Babyship: | The quality of being a baby the personality of an infant |
| babysit: | act as a babysitter |
| babysitter: | A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home |
| babysitting: | the work of a baby sitter caring for children when their parents are not home |
| babywalker: | a framework on small wheels or casters designed to support small children while they are learning to walk and usually having a fabric support that permits the child to sit Called also walker and gocart |
| Bac: | A broad flatbottomed ferryboat usually worked by a rope |
| bacca: | an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp e g grape tomato cranberry |
| Baccalaureate: | The degree of bachelor of arts BA or AB the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges |
| Baccalaureate: | Pertaining to a bachelor of arts |
| Baccara: | A French game of cards played by a banker and punters |
| Baccare: | Stand back give place a cant word of the Elizabethan writers probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess |
| Baccate: | Pulpy throughout like a berry said of fruits |
| Baccated: | Having many berries |
| Bacchanal: | Relating to Bacchus or his festival |
| Bacchanal: | A devotee of Bacchus one who indulges in drunken revels one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated a carouser |
| Bacchanalian: | Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness |
| Bacchanalian: | A bacchanal a drunken reveler |
| Bacchanalianism: | The practice of bacchanalians bacchanals drunken revelry |
| Bacchant: | A priest of Bacchus |
| Bacchant: | Bacchanalian fond of drunken revelry wineloving reveling carousing |
| Bacchante: | A priestess of Bacchus |
| Bacchantic: | Bacchanalian |
| Bacchic: | Of or relating to Bacchus hence jovial or riotous with intoxication riotously drunken used of revelrous gatherings |
| Bacchius: | A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones according to some two long and a short |
| Bacchus: | The god of wine son of Jupiter and Semele |
| Bacciferous: | Producing berries |
| Bacciform: | Having the form of a berry |
| Baccivorous: | Eating or subsisting on berries as baccivorous birds |
| Bace: | See Base |
| Bacharach: | A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine |
| Bachelor: | A man of any age who has not been married |
| bacheloratarms: | a knight of the lowest order he was permitted to display only a pennon |
| Bachelordom: | The state of bachelorhood the whole body of bachelors |
| Bachelorhood: | The state or condition of being a bachelor bachelorship |
| Bachelorism: | Bachelorhood also a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors |
| Bachelorsbutton: | A plant with flowers shaped like buttons especially several species of Ranunculus and the cornflower Centaurea cyanus and globe amaranth Gomphrena |
| Bachelorship: | The state of being a bachelor |
| Bachelry: | The body of young aspirants for knighthood |
| Bacillar: | Shaped like a rod or staff |
| Bacillari: | See Diatom |
| Bacillary: | Of or pertaining to little rods rodshaped |
| bacilli: | plural of bacillus usually designating aerobic rodshaped sporeproducing bacteria they often occur in chainlike formations |
| Bacilliform: | Rodshaped |
| Bacillus: | A variety of bacterium a microscopic rodshaped vegetable organism |
| bacitracin: | a polypeptide antibacterial antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Grampositive organisms and usually used topically for superficial local infection |
| Back: | A large shallow vat a cistern tub or trough used by brewers distillers dyers picklers gluemakers and others for mixing or cooling wort holding water hot glue etc |
| Back: | In human beings the hinder part of the body extending from the neck to the end of the spine in other animals that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being as the back of a horse fish or lobster |
| Back: | Being at the back or in the rear distant remote as the back door back settlements |
| Back: | To move or go backward as the horse refuses to back |
| Back: | In to or toward the rear as to stand back to step back |
| backache: | an ache localized in the back |
| backandforth: | a discussion giveandtake |
| Backarack: | See Bacharach |
| Backare: | Same as Baccare |
| Backband: | The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage |
| backbench: | any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons of Great Britain |
| backbencher: | a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is not a party leader |
| backbend: | an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor |
| Backbite: | To wound by clandestine detraction to censure meanly or spitefully an absent person to slander or speak evil of one absent |
| Backbite: | To censure or revile the absent |
| Backbiter: | One who backbites a secret calumniator or detractor |
| Backbiting: | Secret slander detraction |
| Backbond: | An instrument which in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition constitutes a trust |
| Backboned: | Vertebrate |
| Backcast: | Anything which brings misfortune upon one or causes failure in an effort or enterprise a reverse |
| backdate: | to make effective from an earlier date to make retroactive |
| Backdoor: | A door in the back part of a building hence an indirect way |
| Backdoor: | Acting from behind and in concealment backstairs as backdoor intrigues |
| Backdown: | A receding or giving up a complete surrender |
| backdrop: | the scenery hung at back of stage Also called in Britain backcloth |
| Backed: | Having a back fitted with a back as a backed electrotype or stereotype plate Used in composition as broadbacked humpbacked |
| Backer: | One who or that which backs especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest |
| Backfall: | A fall or throw on the back in wrestling |
| backfire: | A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel |
| Backfire: | To have or experience a back fire or back fires said of an internalcombustion engine |
| backformation: | a word invented usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it such as emote from emotion |
| Backfriend: | A secret enemy |
| backgammon: | A game of chance and skill played by two persons on a bdboardb8 marked off into twentyfour spaces called bdpointsb8 Each player has fifteen pieces or bdmenb8 the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice Formerly called tables |
| backgammon: | In the game of backgammon to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first bdtableb8 When played for betting purposes the winner in such a case scores three times the wagered amount |
| backgrounding: | The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system |
| Backhand: | A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right |
| Backhand: | Sloping from left to right said of handwriting |
| Backhanded: | With the hand turned backward as a backhanded blow |
| backhanded: | Stroked with a backhand2 as a backhanded drive |
| Backhandedness: | State of being backhanded the using of backhanded or indirect methods |
| Backhander: | A backhanded blow |
| Backheel: | A method of tripping by getting the leg back of the opponents heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back a throw made in this way |
| Backhouse: | A building behind the main building |
| Backing: | The act of moving backward or of putting or moving anything backward |
| Backjoint: | A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling |
| Backlash: | The distance through which one part of connected machinery as a wheel piston or screw can be moved without moving the connected parts resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear also the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion |
| Backless: | Without a back |
| Backlog: | A large stick of wood forming the back of a fire on the hearth Contrasted to forestick |
| backpack: | a bag carried on the back supported by straps looped over the shoulders |
| backpack: | to hike while carrying a backpack often used in the form go backpacking as to backpack through the forest |
| backpacker: | one who backpacks as two backpackers were mauled by bears in Yellowstone this week |
| backpedal: | pedal backwards as on a bicycle |
| Backpiece: | A piece or plate which forms the back of anything or which covers the back |
| Backrack: | See Bacharach |
| backrest: | a support that you can lean against while sitting |
| backroom: | the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations |
| Backs: | Among leather dealers the thickest and stoutest tanned hides |
| Backsaw: | A saw as a tenon saw whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back |
| Backset: | A check a relapse a discouragement a setback |
| Backset: | To plow again in the fall said of prairie land broken up in the spring |
| Backsettler: | One living in the back or outlying districts of a community |
| Backsheesh: | In Egypt and the Turkish empire a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered as by a waiter a gratuity a bdtipb8 |
| Backside: | The hinder part posteriors or rump of a person or animal |
| Backsight: | The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied Cf Foresight n 3 |
| Backslide: | To slide back to fall away esp to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed |
| Backslider: | One who backslides |
| Backsliding: | Slipping back falling back into sin or error sinning |
| Backsliding: | The act of one who backslides abandonment of faith or duty |
| backspace: | The key on a typewriter or other keyboard used for back spacing |
| backspace: | In typing text to press the backspace key so as to reposition the carriage or cursor on the previous space |
| Backstaff: | An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed |
| backstage: | the area on the stage out of sight of the audience |
| backstage: | concealed from the public in private |
| Backstairs: | Stairs in the back part of a house as distinguished from the front stairs a second staircase at the rear of a building hence a private or indirect way |
| Backstairs: | Private indirect secret conducted with secrecy intriguing as if finding access by the back stairs as backstairs gossip |
| Backstay: | A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship slanting a little aft to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast |
| Backster: | A baker |
| Backstitch: | A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch and bringing it out in front of the end |
| Backstitch: | To sew with backstitches as to backstitch a seam |
| Backstop: | In baseball a fence prop at least 90 feet behind the home base to stop the balls that pass the catcher also the catcher himself |
| Backstress: | A female baker |
| backstroke: | a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back It is usually executed with backwardmoving circular arm strokes and a flutter kick |
| backswept: | aligned from front to back slanted toward the back used of hair |
| Backsword: | A sword with one sharp edge |
| backswimmer: | any of numerous predaceous aquatic insects of the family Notonectidae such as Notonecta undulata that swim on their backs and may inflict painful bites also called boat bug |
| backtoback: | occurring immediately one after the other consecutive |
| backup: | to move in a reverse direction used of vehicles or animals |
| backup: | to serve as a backup3 for another person or persons as the patrolmen backed up the detectives as they went inside to make the arrest the center fielder backed up the shortstop on the play |
| backup: | anything kept in reserve to serve as a substitute in case of failure or unavailability of the normal or primary object used for devices plans people etc Also used attributively as there was no backup for the electrical supply a backup motor a backup generator |
| Backward: | With the back in advance or foremost as to ride backward |
| Backward: | Directed to the back or rear as backward glances |
| Backward: | The state behind or past |
| Backward: | To keep back to hinder |
| Backwardation: | The sellers postponement of delivery of stock or shares with the consent of the buyer upon payment of a premium to the latter also the premium so paid See Contango |
| Backwardly: | Reluctantly slowly aversely |
| backwardness: | The state of being backward |
| backwash: | To clean the oil from wool after combing |
| backwash: | The flow of water propelled backward by the propeller paddle wheel or oars of a boat |
| Backwater: | Water turned back in its course by an obstruction an opposing current or the flow of the tide as in a sewer or river channel or across a river bar |
| Backwoods: | The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers |
| Backwoodsman: | A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements especially on the western frontiers of the United States in former times |
| Backworm: | A disease of hawks See Filanders |
| Bacon: | The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked formerly the flesh of a pig salted or fresh |
| Bacon: | Roger Bacon A celebrated English philosopher of the thirteenth century Born at or near Ilchester Somersetshire about 1214 died probably at Oxford in 1294 He is credited with a recognition of the importance of experiment in answering questions about the natural world recognized the potential importance of gunpowder and explosives generally and wrote comments about several of the physical sciences that anticipated facts proven by experiment only much later |
| Baconian: | Of or pertaining to Lord Francis Bacon or to his system of philosophy |
| Baconian: | One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon |
| bacteremia: | The presence of bacteria in the blood |
| bacteremic: | Of or pertaining to bacteremia |
| Bacteria: | See Bacterium |
| Bacterial: | Of pertaining to or caused by bacteria |
| Bactericidal: | Destructive of bacteria |
| Bactericide: | Same as Germicide |
| bacteriemia: | The presence of bacteria in the blood same as bacteremia |
| Bacterin: | A bacterial vaccine |
| Bacteriological: | Of or pertaining to bacteriology as bacteriological studies |
| Bacteriologist: | One skilled in bacteriology |
| Bacteriology: | The branch of microbiology relating to bacteria |
| Bacteriolysis: | Chemical decomposition brought about by bacteria without the addition of oxygen |
| bacteriophage: | a virus which infects bacteria also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon |
| bacteriophagic: | of or pertaining to bacteriophage |
| Bacterioscopic: | Relating to bacterioscopy as a bacterioscopic examination |
| Bacterioscopist: | One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations |
| Bacterioscopy: | The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification as in the examination of polluted water |
| bacteriostasis: | inhibition of the growth of bacteria without outright killing of the organism |
| bacteriostat: | a chemical or biological material that inhibits bacterial growth |
| bacteriostatic: | of or pertaining to bacteriostasis or a bacteriostat |
| bacterise: | to subject to the action of bacteria |
| Bacterium: | A microscopic singlecelled organism having no distinguishable nucleus belonging to the kingdom Monera Bacteria have varying shapes usually taking the form of a jointed rodlike filament or a small sphere but also in certain cases having a branched form Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll but in those members of the phylum Cyanophyta the bluegreen algae other lightabsorbing pigments are present They are the smallest of microscopic organisms which have their own metabolic processes carried on within cell membranes viruses being smaller but not capable of living freely The bacteria are very widely diffused in nature and multiply with marvelous rapidity both by fission and by spores Bacteria may require oxygen for their energyproducing metabolism and these are called aerobes or may multiply in the absence of oxygen these forms being anaerobes Certain species are active agents in fermentation while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases The branch of science with studies bacteria is bacteriology being a division of microbiology See Bacillus |
| bacterize: | to subject to the action of bacteria |
| Bacteroid: | Resembling bacteria as bacteroid particles |
| Bactrian: | Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia |
| Bacule: | See Bascule |
| baculiform: | shaped like a rod |
| Baculine: | Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod |
| Baculite: | A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks It is like an uncoiled ammonite |
| Baculometry: | Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs |
| Bad: | Bade |
| Bad: | Wanting good qualities whether physical or moral injurious hurtful inconvenient offensive painful unfavorable or defective either physically or morally evil vicious wicked the opposite of good as a bad man bad conduct bad habits bad soil bad air bad health a bad crop bad news |
| Badaud: | A person given to idle observation of everything with wonder or astonishment a credulous or gossipy idler |
| Badder: | compar of Bad a |
| Badderlocks: | A large black seaweed Alaria esculenta sometimes eaten in Europe also called murlins honeyware and henware |
| Baddish: | Somewhat bad inferior |
| Bade: | A form of the past tense of Bid |
| Badge: | A distinctive mark token sign or cognizance worn on the person as the badge of a society the badge of a policeman |
| Badge: | To mark or distinguish with a badge |
| Badgeless: | Having no badge |
| Badger: | An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food a hawker a huckster formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another |
| Badger: | A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus It is a burrowing animal with short thick legs and long claws on the fore feet One species Meles meles or Meles vulgaris called also brock inhabits the north of Europe and Asia another species Taxidea taxus or Taxidea Americana or Taxidea Labradorica inhabits the northern parts of North America See Teledu |
| Badger: | To tease or annoy as a badger when baited to worry or irritate persistently |
| Badgerer: | One who badgers |
| Badgergame: | The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure |
| Badgering: | The act of one who badgers |
| Badgerlegged: | Having legs of unequal length as the badger was thought to have |
| BadgerState: | Wisconsin a nickname |
| Badiaga: | A freshwater sponge Spongilla common in the north of Europe the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises |
| Badian: | An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family Illicium anisatum and its aromatic seeds Chinese anise star anise |
| Badigeon: | A cement or distemper paste as of plaster and powdered freestone or of sawdust and glue or lime used by sculptors builders and workers in wood or stone to fill holes cover defects finish a surface etc |
| Badinage: | Playful raillery banter |
| Badlands: | Barren regions especially in the western United States where horizontal strata Tertiary deposits have been often eroded into fantastic forms and much intersected by caa4ons and where lack of wood water and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country whence the name first given by the Canadian French Mauvaises Terres bad lands |
| Badly: | In a bad manner poorly not well unskillfully imperfectly unfortunately grievously so as to cause harm disagreeably seriously |
| Badminton: | A game similar to lawn tennis played with shuttlecocks |
| Badness: | The state of being bad |
| Bnomere: | One of the somites arthromeres that make up the thorax of Arthropods |
| Bnopod: | One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods |
| Bnosome: | The thorax of Arthropods |
| Btulus: | A meteorite or similar rude stone artificially shaped held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin |
| Baff: | A blow a stroke thud |
| Baff: | To strike to beat to make a baff |
| Baffle: | To practice deceit |
| Baffle: | A defeat by artifice shifts and turns discomfiture |
| baffled: | not understanding |
| Bafflement: | The process or act of baffling or of being baffled frustration check |
| Baffler: | One who or that which baffles |
| Baffling: | Frustrating discomfiting disconcerting as baffling currents winds tasks |
| Baffy: | A short wooden club having a deeply concave face seldom used |
| Baft: | Same as Bafta |
| Bafta: | A coarse stuff usually of cotton originally made in India Also an imitation of this fabric made for export |
| Bag: | A sack or pouch used for holding anything as a bag of meal or of money |
| Bag: | To put into a bag as to bag hops |
| Bag: | To swell or hang down like a full bag as the skin bags from containing morbid matter |
| Bagasse: | Sugar cane as it comes crushed from the mill It is then dried and used as fuel Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar |
| Bagatelle: | A trifle a thing of no importance |
| bagel: | a glazed leavened doughnutshaped roll with a hard crust |
| bagful: | The quantity that a bag will hold as he ate a bagful of popcorn |
| baggage: | The clothes tents utensils and provisions of an army |
| Baggagemaster: | One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel |
| Baggager: | One who takes care of baggage a camp follower |
| Baggala: | A twomasted Arab or Indian trading vessel used in the Indian Ocean |
| Baggily: | In a loose baggy way |
| Bagging: | Cloth or other material for bags |
| Bagging: | Reaping peas beans wheat etc with a chopping stroke |
| Baggy: | Resembling a bag loose or puffed out or pendent like a bag flabby as baggy trousers baggy cheeks |
| Baglady: | a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in bags |
| Bagman: | A commercial traveler one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen |
| Bagnet: | A bagshaped net for catching fish |
| Bagnio: | A house for bathing sweating etc also in Turkey a prison for slaves |
| Bagpipe: | A musical wind instrument now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland |
| Bagpipe: | To make to look like a bagpipe |
| Bagpiper: | One who plays on a bagpipe a piper |
| Bagreef: | The lower reef of fore and aft sails also the upper reef of topsails |
| Bague: | The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts |
| Baguet: | A small molding like the astragal but smaller a bead |
| Bagwig: | A wig in use in the 18th century with the hair at the back of the head in a bag |
| Bagworm: | One of several lepidopterous insects which construct in the larval state a baglike case which they carry about for protection One species Platd2ceticus Gloveri feeds on the orange tree See Basket worm |
| Bah: | An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt |
| Bahadur: | A title of respect or honor given to European officers in East Indian state papers and colloquially and among the natives to distinguished officials and other important personages |
| Bahai: | A member of the sect of the Babis consisting of the adherents of Baha Mirza Husain Ali entitled bdBaha u llahb8 or bdthe Splendor of Godb8 the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect and became its recognized head There are upwards of 20000 Bahais in the United States |
| Bahaism: | The religious tenets or practices of the Bahais |
| Bahar: | A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies varying considerably in different localities the range being from 223 to 625 pounds |
| Bahrain: | an island in the Persian Gulf |
| Bahraini: | a native or inhabitant of Bahrain |
| Bahraini: | of or pertaining to Bahrain definition 2 |
| Bahrein: | an island in the Persian Gulf same as Bahrain |
| Bahreini: | a native or inhabitant of Bahrain |
| Bai: | a language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan |
| Baigne: | To soak or drench |
| Baignoire: | A box of the lowest tier in a theater |
| Bail: | A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat |
| Bail: | To lade to dip and throw usually with out as to bail water out of a boat |
| Bail: | To deliver to release |
| Bail: | Custody keeping |
| Bail: | The arched handle of a kettle pail or similar vessel usually movable |
| Bail: | A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense |
| Bailable: | Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail upon bond with sureties used of persons |
| Bailbond: | A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety to insure the prisoners appearance in court at the return of the writ |
| Bailee: | The person to whom goods are committed in trust and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them for the purposes of the trust |
| Bailer: | See Bailor |
| Bailer: | One who bails or lades |
| Bailey: | The outer wall of a feudal castle |
| Bailie: | An officer in Scotland whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff but now corresponds to that of an English alderman |
| Bailiffwick: | See Bailiwick |
| Bailiwick: | The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction the limits of a bailiffs authority |
| Baillie: | Bailiff |
| Bailment: | The action of bailing a person accused |
| Bailor: | One who delivers goods or money to another in trust |
| Bailpiece: | A piece of parchment or paper containing a recognizance or bail bond |
| Bailysbeads: | A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun Just before and after a total eclipse the slender unobscured crescent of the suns disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads The phenomenon first fully described by Francis Baily 1774 1844 is thought to be an effect of irradiation and of inequalities of the moons edge |
| Bain: | A bath a bagnio |
| Bainmarie: | A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations |
| Bairam: | Either of two Mohammedan festivals of which one the Lesser Bairam is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan and the other the Greater Bairam seventy days after the fast |
| Bairn: | A child |
| Baisemains: | Respects compliments |
| Bait: | Any substance esp food used in catching fish or other animals by alluring them to a hook snare inclosure or net |
| Bait: | To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of ones self or ones beasts on a journey |
| Bait: | To flap the wings to flutter as if to fly or to hover as a hawk when she stoops to her prey |
| Baiter: | One who baits a tormentor |
| baiting: | harassment especially of a tethered animal |
| Baize: | A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap usually dyed in plain colors |
| Bajocco: | A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States worth about a cent and a half |
| Bake: | To prepare as food by cooking in a dry heat either in an oven or under coals or on heated stone or metal as to bake bread meat apples |
| Bake: | To do the work of baking something as she brews washes and bakes |
| Bake: | The process or result of baking |
| baked: | dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight |
| Bakehouse: | A house for baking a bakery |
| Bakelite: | a thermosetting plastic used in electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc |
| Bakemeat: | A pie baked food |
| Baken: | p p of Bake |
| Baker: | One whose business it is to bake bread biscuit etc |
| Bakerlegged: | Having legs that bend inward at the knees |
| Bakery: | The trade of a baker |
| Baking: | The act or process of cooking in an oven or of drying and hardening by heat or cold |
| Bakingly: | In a hot or baking manner |
| Bakistre: | A baker |
| Baksheesh: | Same as Backsheesh |
| baksheesh: | A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered as by a waiter Same as Backsheesh |
| bakshis: | A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered as by a waiter Same as Backsheesh |
| bakshish: | A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered as by a waiter Same as Backsheesh |
| Balaam: | A paragraph describing something wonderful used to fill out a newspaper column an allusion to the miracle of Balaams ass speaking |
| Balachong: | A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps pounded up with salt and spices and then dried It is much esteemed in China |
| balaclava: | closefitting and woolen and covers all of the head but the face |
| Balaena: | type genus of the Balaenidae Greenland whales |
| Balaeniceps: | type genus of the Balaenicipitidae shoebills |
| Balaenicipitidae: | a family comprising the shoebills |
| Balaenidae: | a family comprising the right whales |
| Balnoidea: | A division of the Cetacea including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen See Baleen |
| Balaenoptera: | the type genus of the Balaenopteridae |
| Balaenopteridae: | rorquals blue whales |
| balalaika: | a stringed instrument of Russian origin that has a triangular body and three strings |
| Balance: | An apparatus for weighing |
| Balance: | To bring to an equipoise as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights to weigh in a balance |
| Balance: | To have equal weight on each side to be in equipoise as the scales balance |
| Balanceable: | Such as can be balanced |
| balanced: | being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium opposite of unbalanced |
| Balancement: | The act or result of balancing or adjusting equipoise even adjustment of forces |
| Balancer: | One who balances or uses a balance |
| Balancereef: | The last reef in a foreandaft sail taken to steady the ship |
| Balancewheel: | A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer answering to the pendulum of a clock often called simply a balance |
| Balaniferous: | Bearing or producing acorns |
| Balanite: | A fossil balanoid shell |
| Balanoglossus: | A peculiar marine worm See Enteropneusta and Tornaria |
| Balanoid: | Resembling an acorn applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns See Acornshell and Barnacle |
| Balasruby: | A variety of spinel ruby of a pale rose red or inclining to orange See Spinel |
| Balata: | A West Indian sapotaceous tree Bumelia retusa |
| Balaustine: | The pomegranate tree Punica granatum The bark of the root the rind of the fruit and the flowers are used medicinally |
| Balayeuse: | A protecting ruffle or frill as of silk or lace sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside |
| Balbutiate: | To stammer |
| Balbuties: | The defect of stammering also a kind of incomplete pronunciation |
| Balcon: | A balcony |
| Balconied: | Having balconies |
| Balcony: | A platform projecting from the wall of a building usually resting on brackets or consoles and inclosed by a parapet as a balcony in front of a window Also a projecting gallery in places of amusement as the balcony in a theater |
| Bald: | Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top as of hair feathers foliage trees etc as a bald head a bald oak |
| Baldachin: | A rich brocade baudekin |
| Baldeagle: | The whiteheaded eagle Halietus leucocephalus of America The young until several years old lack the white feathers on the head |
| Balder: | The most beautiful and beloved of the gods the god of peace the son of Odin and Freya |
| Balderdash: | A worthless mixture especially of liquors |
| Balderdash: | To mix or adulterate as liquors |
| Baldfaced: | Having a white face or a white mark on the face as a stag |
| Baldhead: | A person whose head is bald |
| baldheaded: | Having a bald head lacking hair on all or most of the scalp alsp called bald and baldpated as a baldheaded gentleman |
| Baldly: | Nakedly without reserve inelegantly |
| Baldness: | The state or condition of being bald as baldness of the head baldness of style |
| Baldpate: | A baldheaded person |
| Baldpate: | Destitute of hair on the head baldheaded |
| Baldrib: | A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib and destitute of fat |
| Baldric: | A broad belt sometimes richly ornamented worn over one shoulder across the breast and under the opposite arm it is used to support a sword or bugle by the left hip less properly any belt |
| Baldwin: | A kind of reddish moderately acid winter apple |
| baldy: | a person who has a bald head a deprecatory term |
| Bale: | A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover and corded for storage or transportation also a bundle of straw hay etc put up compactly for transportation |
| Bale: | To make up in a bale |
| Bale: | See Bail v t to lade |
| Bale: | Misery calamity misfortune sorrow |
| Balearic: | Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca Minorca Ivica etc in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Valencia |
| Baleen: | Plates or blades of bdwhaleboneb8 from two to twelve feet long and sometimes a foot wide which in certain whales Balnoidea are attached side by side along the upper jaw and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth |
| Balefire: | A signal fire an alarm fire |
| Baleful: | Full of deadly or pernicious influence destructive |
| Balefully: | In a baleful manner perniciously |
| Balefulness: | The quality or state of being baleful |
| Balisaur: | A badgerlike animal of India Arctonyx collaris |
| Balister: | A crossbow |
| Balistidae: | a natural family comprising the triggerfishes |
| Balistoid: | Like a fish of the genus Balistes of the family Balistid See Filefish |
| Balistraria: | A narrow opening often cruciform through which arrows might be discharged |
| Balize: | A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark |
| Balk: | A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows or at the end of a field a piece missed by the plow slipping aside |
| Balk: | To engage in contradiction to be in opposition |
| Balk: | To indicate to fishermen by shouts or signals from shore the direction taken by the shoals of herring |
| balkanize: | to divide a territory into small hostile states |
| Balkans: | The countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula |
| balked: | Same as baffled |
| Balker: | One who or that which balks |
| Balker: | A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring etc and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass a conder a huer |
| balkiness: | likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly |
| balkline: | line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game |
| Balkingly: | In a manner to balk or frustrate |
| Balkish: | Uneven ridgy |
| Balky: | Apt to balk as a balky horse |
| Ball: | Any round or roundish body or mass a sphere or globe as a ball of twine a ball of snow |
| Ball: | To gather balls which cling to the feet as of damp snow or clay to gather into balls as the horse balls the snow balls |
| Ball: | To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling |
| Ball: | A social assembly for the purpose of dancing usually applied to an occasion lavish or formal |
| Ballad: | A popular kind of narrative poem adapted for recitation or singing as the ballad of Chevy Chase esp a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas |
| Ballad: | To make or sing ballads |
| Ballad: | To make mention of in ballads |
| Ballade: | A form of French versification sometimes imitated in English in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each the stanzas concluding with a refrain and the whole poem with an envoy |
| Ballader: | A writer of ballads |
| Balladmonger: | A seller or maker of ballads a poetaster |
| Balladry: | Ballad poems the subject or style of ballads |
| Ballahoo: | A fastsailing schooner used in the Bermudas and West Indies |
| Ballarag: | To bully to threaten |
| Ballast: | Any heavy substance as stone iron etc put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing |
| Ballast: | To steady as a vessel by putting heavy substances in the hold |
| Ballastage: | A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor |
| Ballasting: | That which is used for steadying anything ballast |
| Ballatry: | See Balladry |
| balled: | formed or gathered into a ball |
| ballerina: | A female ballet dancer |
| Ballet: | An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment or an interlude by a number of persons usually women Sometimes a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing |
| balletic: | of or pertaining to ballet1 |
| balletmaster: | a man who trains ballet dancers |
| balletmistress: | a woman who trains ballet dancers |
| balletomane: | a ballet enthusiast |
| balletslipper: | a heelless slipper specifically designed to be worn by ballet dancers while dancing |
| Ballflower: | An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower the petals of which form a cup round it usually inserted in a hollow molding |
| ballhawking: | skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit used of a Baseball or basketball or football player |
| Ballista: | An ancient military engine in the form of a crossbow used for hurling large missiles |
| Ballister: | A crossbow |
| Ballistic: | Of or pertaining to the ballista or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine |
| ballisticmissile: | A rocketpropelled missile of long range which is guided only during the powered portion of its flight which usually takes only a small part of the total flight time contrasted with guided missile |
| Ballistics: | The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine |
| Ballistite: | A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin |
| Ballium: | See Bailey |
| Balloon: | A bag made of silk or other light material and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air so as to rise and float in the atmosphere especially one with a car attached for a89rial navigation |
| Balloon: | To take up in or as if in a balloon |
| Balloon: | To go up or voyage in a balloon |
| Ballooned: | Swelled out like a balloon |
| Ballooner: | One who goes up in a balloon an a89ronaut |
| balloonfish: | A fish of the genus Diodon such as Diodon holocanthus or the genus Tetraodon having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus It is similar to but smaller than the porcupinefish See Globefish and Bur fish |
| Ballooning: | The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them the sport of riding in balloons |
| Ballooningspider: | A spider which has the habit of rising into the air Many kinds esp species of Lycosa do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft |
| Balloonist: | An a89ronaut |
| Balloonry: | The art or practice of ascending in a balloon an older term for ballooning |
| Ballot: | To vote or decide by ballot as to ballot for a candidate |
| Ballot: | To vote for or in opposition to |
| Ballotade: | A leap of a horse as between two pillars or upon a straight line so that when his four feet are in the air he shows only the shoes of his hind feet without jerking out |
| Ballotage: | In France a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates a runoff election |
| Ballotation: | Voting by ballot |
| Balloter: | One who votes by ballot |
| Ballotin: | An officer who has charge of a ballot box |
| Ballow: | A cudgel |
| ballplayer: | an athlete who plays baseball |
| ballpoint: | a pen which has a small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper at the tip of a cylandrical and nonrefillable reservoir of ink short for ballpoint pen |
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